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T1 - Exploring Self-Defining Memories in Old Age and their Digital Cues
AU - Sas, Corina
N1 - ©Author ACM, 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196767
PY - 2018/6/8
Y1 - 2018/6/8
N2 - Self-defining memories represent significant emotional events capturing the most important concerns in our lives. While much HCI work on memory technologies has focused on autobiographic memories and lifelogging technologies for capturing them, there has been little exploration of self-defining memories and how they may be supported by appropriate cues. This is important as such memories are key in the development and maintenance of sense of self, particularly in old age. We report on interviews with 8 older adults in their homes. Findings advance the understanding of self-defining memories and their possible cues with new insights into their relationship with self identities and cues’ specific qualities supporting richer emotional recall. Our findings led to several design implications such as novel technologies for curating self-defining memories and their cues, for embedding layered meaning in such cues across the lifespan, and for crafting them.
AB - Self-defining memories represent significant emotional events capturing the most important concerns in our lives. While much HCI work on memory technologies has focused on autobiographic memories and lifelogging technologies for capturing them, there has been little exploration of self-defining memories and how they may be supported by appropriate cues. This is important as such memories are key in the development and maintenance of sense of self, particularly in old age. We report on interviews with 8 older adults in their homes. Findings advance the understanding of self-defining memories and their possible cues with new insights into their relationship with self identities and cues’ specific qualities supporting richer emotional recall. Our findings led to several design implications such as novel technologies for curating self-defining memories and their cues, for embedding layered meaning in such cues across the lifespan, and for crafting them.
KW - Self-defining memories
KW - memory cues
KW - self
KW - older adults
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450351980
SP - 149
EP - 161
BT - DIS '18 Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
PB - ACM
T2 - ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2018
Y2 - 9 June 2018 through 13 June 2018
ER -